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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Make the optimization of Turbonomic by Turbonomic available per default when deploying on OpenShift

The Turbonomic OVA always includes the feature that Turbonomic optimizes itself and displays itself as business application. For this purpose the OVA included Prometheus to gather the required metrics, prometurbo to import those to Turbonomic, kub...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Addition of Application Signature

Any application which runs on Windows/Linux consumes resources like CPU, Memory, storage from the client operating system. The resource utilizations of all application are shown and visible to the client OS. If there would a way in turbonomics to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Remove requirement to set Automation level on every Volume policy

Currently, with VM policies, you can add or ignore every variable in the policy menu. By this i mean that i can have a policy blocking instance types, and i don't have to also select Manual or Automatic. I can leave that section blank and allow ot...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

enable the ingestion of Azure SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic currently ingests some Azure SQL PaaS, but not all. SQL Managed Instances are a class that should be included.

Adding "Tags" column to the export of "All Actions - Executed" widget

This is especially useful in praising app owners / teams who execute actions week over week. Just how we've included tags as a column in our pending actions to help pinpoint which teams have actions that need to be taken, it makes sense to incorpo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Functionality already exists

When the rate of resize is NOT 3 – show the desired end state. – let it be clear that it will take more steps to get to desired state.

If a customer has a Rate of Resize set to 2-Medium then Turbonomic will create an action to take it 25% of the way to the optimal value. And this jump (let’s say 32GB –> 34 GB memory) appears in the Action and Details. The optimal value is 8GB ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration